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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: gg cox who wrote (23554)	3/31/2012 1:35:05 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

Should a citizen be allowed to ride on the backs of others for the health care that he might need, at any moment? Not buying insurance, can possibly result in a situation where you might ride on the backs of others, but it isn't itself not riding on the backs of others. Also having insurance, and then incurring a great cost to the insurance, is in a sense riding on the backs of others anyway. (Its not purely or simply that, you did buy the service of insurance, you created a contract for you to be covered, OTOH the cost minus your premiums is almost as large as the cost would have been without your premiums.) And most important, the only reason why you can force yourself on others backs is the legal requirement for emergency care regardless of your ability to pay. I'm not making a statement against that requirement, but it can't reasonably be used to justify additional government powers. If something is illegitimate for the federal government (like the individual mandate is), then the feds own creation of a problem in that area, doesn't justify more power to deal with that problem.

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